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1/ THREAD: Harvard rescinded my acceptance. Three months after being admitted to Harvard Class of 2023, Harvard has decided to rescind my admission over texts and comments made nearly two years ago, months prior to the shooting. I have some thoughts. Here’s what happened.

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2/ A few weeks ago, I was made aware of egregious and callous comments classmates and I made privately years ago - when I was 16 years old, months before the shooting - in an attempt to be as extreme and shocking as possible. I immediately apologized. Here is my apology:

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3/ After I issued this apology, speculative articles were written, my peers used the opportunity to attack me, and my life was once again reduced to a headline. It sent me into one of the darkest spirals of my life.

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4/ After the story broke, former peers & political opponents began contacting Harvard urging them to rescind me. Harvard then sent this letter stating that Harvard "reserves the right to withdraw an offer of admission" and requested a written explanation within 72 hours.

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5/ I responded to the letter with a full explanation, apology, and requested documents.

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6/ I also sent an email to the Office of Diversity and Inclusion to seek guidance on how to right this wrong and work with them once I was on campus.

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7/ Harvard decided to rescind my admission with the following letter.

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8/ Somewhat ironically, the Office of Diversity and Inclusion sent me this response regarding my apology: “Thank you for your email. We appreciate your thoughtful reflections and look forward to connecting with you upon your matriculation in the fall of 2020..."

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9/ After receiving Harvard’s letter revoking my acceptance, I responded by asking for the opportunity to have an in-person meeting to make my case face to face and work towards any possible path of reconciliation. Harvard responded by declining my meeting request.

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10/ Harvard deciding that someone can’t grow, especially after a life-altering event like the shooting, is deeply concerning. If any institution should understand growth, it’s Harvard, which is looked to as the pinnacle of higher education despite its checkered past.

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11/ Throughout its history, Harvard’s faculty has included slave owners, segregationists, bigots and antisemites. If Harvard is suggesting that growth isn't possible and that our past defines our future, then Harvard is an inherently racist institution. But I don't believe that.

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12/ I believe that institutions and people can grow. I've said that repeatedly. In the end, this isn’t about me, it's about whether we live in a society in which forgiveness is possible or mistakes brand you as irredeemable, as Harvard has decided for me.

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13/ So what now? I’m figuring it out. I had given up huge scholarships in order to go to Harvard, and the deadline for accepting other college offers has ended. I’m exploring all options at the moment.

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This is America not the Soviet Union under Stalin. He is allowed to support gun ownership. I'm not a gun fan. But I support his right to his position.

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@DetroitPrinces4

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Sorry, but it's easier for

to deny you/accepy someone *without baggage*. It's the #American way,

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Lo'renzo Hill-White

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naaah man. The world does not work like that....ask any black or brown kid rotting away in jail for not being racist scumbags but just a tiny bit of weed. You deserve to figure your shit out just like they will have to. Welcome to the real world. Join the Ku Klux Klan maybe?

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Yatagarasu Kane Webb

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Using the deaths of your classmates as a means to diminish your own racist comments is incredibly pathetic and you should be ashamed. But you won’t be because you’re clearly entitled enough to think actions don’t have their consequences.

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That and the fact that he said his actions were done PRIOR to the shooting...so what does the shooting have to do with you being racist? Nothing at all. This is just as messed up in my opinion.

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